document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=190473>Question 190473</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> a manufacturing company has to assign 6 digit lot numbers to its products using A-Z & 0-9, but the first dizit can not be a zero and the last two digits can not be alphabets(A-Z). so how many lot numbers can it produce? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "There are 26 alphabetic characters A - Z and 10 numbers, 0 - 9.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Since you cannot use zero for the first digit, there are 26 + 9 = 35 ways to choose the first digit.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The second, third, and fourth digits can be anything, so there are 26 + 10 = 36 ways to choose each of those.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "And the fifth and sixth position can only be alphabetic, so you only have 26 ways to choose each of the last two digits.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So for each of the 35 ways to choose the first digit, there are 36 ways to choose the second digit, so 35 X 36 = 1260 ways to choose the first two digits.  For each of those ways there are 36 ways to choose the third digit...and so on, so:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \  35 \times 36 \times 36 \times 36 \times 26 \times 26\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "You can operate a calculator as well as I can.\r<BR>\n" );
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